Popular Scientific Recreations

Автор: Gaston Tissandier
Издательство: Ward, Lock, And CO.
Страниц: 804
Размер: 58,7 МБ

LEARNED mathematician of the seventeenth century, Ozanam by name, a member of the Academy of Sciences and author of several distinguished works, did not think it derogatory to his dignity to write, under the title of " Mathematical and Physical Recreations," a book designed for the amusement of youth, in which science lends itself to every pastime, even jugglery and tricks of legerdemain.

"Jeux d' esprit" says Ozanam, "are for all seasons and all ages ; they instruct the young, they amuse the old, they are welcomed by the rich, and are not above the reach of the poor."